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Chaplain REV. WILBUR FiSKE WOOD, D.D. 



O Lord, our F'ather, we thank Thee that we are enabled to 
gather here in health and^ safety, the objects of Thy love, the 
subjects of Thy grace, the living evidence of Thy rrarvellous provi- 
dence, .^-i... 

Yet, we meet with hfeavy heafts because of the sudden, the 
cruel and needless taking off of our beloved and honored Comrade, 
the President of the United States. 

Put the seal of Thy condemnation upon the violence and false 
teaching of those by whom he has been so foully slain, and show 
them their errors and their awful crime. 

We remember, with great thanksgiving, the record of his noble 
character, the dignity, and honor and skill with which he dis- 
charged the varied duties of his high office. 

We thank Thee that he was the instrument for lifting our 
Nation unto the present height of glory, for the place now given it 
among the nations of the earth. 

We thank Thee for his triumph in war, and for his yet greater 
triumph in peace. 

We bless Thee for the beautiful record of his private life, for 
the honor he has placed upon the home, for his bright example as 
the head of his family. 

We rejoice in the revelation of his inner, christian life amid tlie 
trials and temptations of public atfairs. We rejoice in the comfort 
of heart which now is ours because of his nearness to Thee in this 
life, and for his christian faith in Jesus Christ, by which he is given 
a triumphant entrance unto the eternal home. 

We pray Thy benediction upon the broken lily that now waits 

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add in conclusion that we are citizens of one country, whose birth- 
right is the freedom of man, and it will be well with us, should we 
so live, that when our time shall come, no matter how, we can say 
with Comrade McKinley : " It is God's way. Mis will be done." 

■Resolutions aOoptcD bg tbc post, . Adjutant WILBUR F. Brown 

Whereas. The Ruler of all Nations has permitted the removal from Earth 
of William McKinley, President of the United States, in the midst of a most 
useful career, and 

Whereas. The manner of the death of the President was most deplorable 
and revolting in this land of liberty and plenty, and 

Whereas. The conduct of the high office of the President of the United 
States has met with the approval of all highminded and honest men and been 
fruitful with commercial progress, power among nations, and the elexation of 
man, and 

Whereas. The upright and perfect life of this great man holds the world 
in admiration for its devotion to duty and affection for family ties, and 

Whereas. He was a soldier of the Republic in the days of darkness when 
the Flag was assailed and the Union involved ; and was a Comrade of the Grand 
Army of the Republic, formed of the defenders of the Union and for the support of 
civil law, and 

Whereas. Though shot to death by an assassin's hand no word or sugges- 
tion soiled ills Christian character nor marred his brilliant e.xample, and 

Whereas. The blow which deprived him of his human life was aimed at 
the Nation which harbors the wanderer and gives liberty to the oppressed, there- 
fore, be it 

RESOLVED. That as believers in the Supreme Being we. Comrades of 
Lafayette Post, No. 140, Department of New York, bow with submission to 
Divine will and acknowledge our unfitness to explore the mystery of Omnipotent 
direction, trusting in faith for the revelation of the Infinite purpose. 

RESOLVED. That, as we are taught that the purposes of the Almighty are 
wrought out at times with the implements of wickedness, we are not admonished 
to withhold our hand from the punishment of the crime. 

Resolved. That we hold in the highest commendation the conduct of the 
official life of him whom we mourn, and recognizing the benefit to the country and 
to the world, commend to the authorities the purposes and methods he pursued. 

Resolved. That we emulate the lofty example of his private life and per- 
sue the paths of virtue and rectitude he so emineiitl\- followed. 

Resolved. That as sur\iving Comrades of the Grand Armv of the Re- 



public, who tented on the field and touched elbow with the brave man who was 
courageous in battle and feared not to die, we place ourselves on the alignment of 
duty, ready for action, as we may be led by our superiors in office, to perform 
any legitimate ser\-ice having in \'iew the prevention of any deed against the State 
or the punishment of any crime. 

Resolved. That as citizens of a country we helped to save we implore the 
lawmakers and law givers to so construct and enact a law that no resident of the 
land shall be other than a law-supporting citizen and that an attempt on the life, 
or an expression of contempt for the life, of an officer of the Government, shall be 
as odious as treason, and meet treason's reward. 

RESOLVED. That as Soldiers and Citizens we hold in scorn and contempt 
any utterance of ridicule, by voice or press, of the rulers who govern by the peo- 
ple's choice, and approve of the suppression by law of every vehicle of disrespect 
for those who have been called to rule. 

Resolved. That the foregoing, signed by the Commander and Adjutant, be 
inscribed in full on the Post Minutes, copies forwarded to the Commander-in- 
Chief and Department Commander, published in the Grand Army Journal and 
in Post Orders. 

At an Encampment of Lafayette Pose, No. 140, Department of 
New York, Grand Army of the Republic, assembled September 20, 
1901, prior to the hour named for holding Memorial Exercises in 
memory of Comrade William McKinley, President of the United 
States, the following Preamble and Resolutions were unanimously 
adopted : 

WHEREAS. In the infinite wisdom of an All-wise Providence Comrade 
William McKinley has been removed from his sphere of unmeasured usefulness 
and suddenly summoned into a closer presence with his Maker in whom he had 
an abiding trust, and 

Whereas. His consecrated life of joy and sorrow with the wife of his 
affection, tenderly and beautifully illustrated by his devotion and solicitude, 
commands the admiration and esteem of the upright and true, and 

WHEREAS. His patriotism, manifested by his enlistment and service as a 
Union soldier in the Civil War, is recognized by his late Comrades in Arms who 
have shared the danger and honor of such service, and profess a fraternal regard 
and brothedy affection for the Soldier and Patriot, therefore, be it 

Resolved, That while we bow with humble submission to the Heavenly 
Father, who chasteneth while he loveth, we would express our sorrow in the 
bereavement of a separation from one so exalted and beloved, and extend with 

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the affection of those who hold sacred the family ties and with the sincerity of a 
soldier's regard, the deepest sympathy to the v\'ife of our Comrade, whose sorrow 
wl- would share and whose grief we would alleviate. 

RESOLVED. That the loftiest honors we can bestow on the Comrade who 
has fallen is to emulate his virtues and follow his illustrious example; and the 
j;reatest compensation we can offer the pure and noble companion of his perfect 
life, for the loss she has sustained is to remember his iionorable career and pro- 
mote his lofty purposes. 

Resolved. That this tribute of respect be entered in full on a page set 
apart in the Post Minutes and a prepared copy, signed by the Commander and 
duly attested, be forwarded to Mrs. McKinley, 

At an Encampment of Lafayette Post No. 140, Department of 
New York, Grand Army of the Republic, assembled September 20, 
1901, prior to the hour named for holding Memorial Exercises in 
memory of Comrade William McKinley, President of the United 
States, the following Preamble and Resolutions were unanimously 
adopted : 

Whereas. Through the dispensation of Almiglity God President William 
McKinley has been removed from the position of honor and trust where he had 
been placed with conspicuous confidence by an abiding people, and his life taken 
by inscrutable means ; and 

Whereas. By Constitutional Enactment Theodore Roosevelt succeeds to 
the vacant place and has become the head of the Nation, therefore, be it 

Resolved. That as citizens of a great country, veteran soldiers and sailors 
of a great strife and Comrades of the Grand Army of the Republic, pledged to 
obey and support the laws of the countr\- saved from dissolution, we, the mem- 
bers of Lafayette Post, even while bowed down with grief at the loss we feel, and 
stricken with sorrow beside a fallen Comrade's grave, lift our heads with admira- 
tion for the noble sentiments expressed and attitude adopted by President Roose- 
velt upon assuming the great office of responsibility and trust, and further express 
our confidence and faith in his ability and fidelity to honestly and impartially 
perform all the duties of his office as he may be guided by the Ruler of Kings on 
whom he relies, and in the best interests of his country and fellow-man, before 
whose altar he offered himself a sacrifice and for whom he drew his sword. 

Resolved. That the foregoing be entered in full upon the Post Minutes 
and .in engrossed copy forwarded to the President, signed by the Commander 
and attested with the seal. 



Ib^mn, ......" Lead. Kindly Light." 

Lead, kindlx' Light, amid the encircling gloom, 

Lead TlioLi me on ! 
Tile night is dark, and 1 am far from home, 

Lead Thou me on ! 
Keep Thou my feet ! I do not ask to see 
Tile distant scene ; one step enougii for me. 

1 was not ever thus, nor prayed that Tiiou 

Sliouldst lead me on ; 
i loved to choose and see my path ; but now 

Lead Thou me on ! 
1 lo\ed the garish day ; and, spite of fears. 
Pride ruled my will : remember not past years. 

So long Tin- power has blest me, sure it still 

Will lead me on 
O'er moor and fen, o'er crag and torrent, till 

The night is gone; 
And with the morn those angel faces smile. 
Which 1 have loved long since, and lost awhile. 

B&DresS, . . Chaplain REV. WILBUR FiSKE WOOD, D.D. 

MCKINLEY— THE CHRISTIAN GENTLEMAN. 

The term Christian gentleman was never exemplified more forci- 
bly or more truly than in the life and death of William McKinley. 

We offtimes use the word Christian in a very wide sense, for 
instance to distinguish this nation from a heathen nation, as Amer- 
ica from China, or as an American from a Turk, or as a Gentile 
from a Hebrew. But we all know its narrower, its bett'^r, its inner 
meaning. Men were first called Christians in Antioch as the known 
and instinctive friends and followers of Jesus Christ. 

A Christian to-day is a real follower of the teaching and exam- 
ple of Jesus Christ. Not many of us come up to the standard. "All 
we, like sheep, have gone astray'' — or, as Burns expresses it, " A' 
mankind is unco weak and little to be trusted." It is one thing to 
be able to bear the general name Christian when we are classed as 
part of a nation, or as part of a multitude. But it is cjuite another 
tiling to be what the name indicates — an actual follower of Jesus 
Christ, a sincere doer of Christ's will, a consistent example of 
Christ's example. Mr. McKinley was a Christian gentleman, a man 
filled with a sense of christian honor, of christian forbearance, of 

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christian beneficence, of christian sacrifice, of christian forgiveness 
and intercession for those who despitefuUy used him and persecuted 
him. 

Caesar thrice declined the crown but leaving a doubt of his 
sincerity. Mr. McKinley twice sincerely declined the Presidency 
when to accept it w('uld have involved the sacrifice of christian 
honor. Whilst the Ohio delegation was pledged to Mr. Sherman 
nothing would cause Mr. McKinley to accept Mr. Sherman's place, 
even though the convention pressed the nomination upon him, and 
even though it was plain that Mr. Sherman could not be nominated. 
Christian honor, in his judgment, forbade his acceptance and noth- 
ing could move him from his integrity. And this christian character 
was no late or new found thing. His was not an eleventh hour 
Christianity — a death bed profession. It was part of his earliest 
life — even from the days of his youth. 

His Christian convictions and abilities were such that he was, 
by his parents, destined for the ministry. But he himself shrank 
from that line of service, as any man well may do. An ofifice the 
highest and best though so imperfectly filled even by the noblest. 
iJut wherever he went — into law, into politics, into the army — he 
carried his religion with him. Not on his sleeve, not on his tongue 
in continuously pious truisms, and long-faced moralisms, but being 
a man he stood as a man, being a Christian he spake as a Christian 
whenever occasion and principle demanded. He did not crowd 
himself and his views upon the unwilling, nor upon those who dif- 
fered, yet all knew where to find him and whensoever a Christian 
gentlemen was needed friend or foe immediately thought his name. 
It is, therefore, not surprising that his closing hours were so won- 
derful. To the last he lived what he had always professed, and 
amid all the weakness and distortion of pain he was still able to 
tower in highest Christian exaltation above every other soul about 
him. 

I was but little distant from him when he was so cruelly shot. 
Shot in the moment when he was reaching out his hand in warmest 
hospitality ! Shot by the brutal one who made the moment of 
sacred confidence his opportunity for foulest murder ! Shot in a 
way tiiat violated every sense of fairness — that betrayed every law 
of lienor. Shot by the hand of anothei" Judas ! He was not simply 
Mr. McKinley, he was our President ! He was the Father of the 
National Family, and every son and daughter of the nation's family 
has felt that shot as a personal offence, as a blow in the face from 
the hand of impudent ignorance. It is not surprising, therefore, 
that every man on the Exposition grounds that awful P>iday was 
immediately aflame with indignation. Had there been gallows high 



enough, and rope long enongli, an one hundred thousand hands 
were anxious to swing the wicked wretch to Hades. 

Who was there in these awful moments amid rage and tears 
that would have dared to stand up in defence of the assassin ! He, 
too, would have been torn to pieces. Yet amid all that excitement 
of terror, amid the horror of the treacherous crime, amid all the 
flaming violence of indignation, amid the cry of vengeance that was 
anxious to smite, and was smiting the murderer, amid all the terri- 
ble solemnity and intense anxiety as to the possible outcome of life or 
death of the President, there was heard the voice of intercession. 
There was just one man in all that excited multitude that was calm 
enough to beg for the life of the murderer, that was Christian enough 
to pray for the dastardly assassin. But for that prayer there is no 
doubt whatever that that Judas body would have been crushed to 
jelly. Only the voice of the murdered Christian President saved 
the life of his murderer. Never, among all humanity, was there 
higher example of the Christian ! The only voice that has been 
lifted up for that murderous wretch was the voice of him that was 
smitten. The Master himself, in His great Sermon on the Mount, 
has bidden us to pray for them which despitefuUy use us and perse- 
cute us that we may be the children of "Our Father which is in 
Heaven." — Matt. 5; 44, 45. But in all that multitude on that awful 
Sixth of September there was but one who did it! And he the 
aggrieved one most of all — the one from whom we ought least to 
have expected it! With all solemnity, with all humility, with all 
deference to the exaltation of Divinity, we cannot help being re- 
minded of that other Friday afternoon, at almost the same, precise 
hour on Mount Calvary. When Jesus Christ was being put to death 
there was only one voice lifted up in intercession for his murderers, 
and that was the voice of Jesus Christ himself ! " Father forgive 
them for they know not what they do." Ten words that have 
transformed the world, yet words that the best of us can seldom 
pray. It requires a high Christianity to do it. It takes close and 
persistent walking in the footsteps of Jesus Christ to do it. Amid 
all the stress of these past two weeks I only know one to do it, and 
he our stricken President. 

And again in his last hours this Christian man proved his 
Christianity by putting the whole matter just where God's word 
teaches us to put it. When all earthly hope for life was ended then 
calmly as if just going on a journey he bid them all good-bye, say- 
ing, also, " It is God's way, His will be done." Then all the pomp 
and circumstance of earthly glory passed away. Then the highest 
potentate amid the Kings and Emperors of nations laid aside all 

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thought of mortal things — then this greatest one among us all 
looked up to God. 

He had lived nigh unto his Master and to his God all his life 
but now his final prayer on earth is " Nearer — close as I may have 
lived my last yearning in the mortal body is '' yet nearer." 

" Nearer my God to Thee, nearer to Thee. " 

When Balaam, the prophet of God, four thousand years ago, 
saw in glorious vision the honor and the blessings and the exalta- 
tions of (jod's people in the coming years he exclaimed " What has 
God wrought ! I shall see Him but' not now; 1 shall behold Him 
but not nigh; there shall come a star out of Jacob, and a sceptre 
shall rise out of Israel, * * Out of Jacob shall come He that 
shall have dominion, * * Who can count the dust of Jacob," 
And with all this glory of the coming Christ shining in his eyes and 
thrilling in his voice he prayed, as we all may well pray to-night, 
" Let me die the death of the righteous and let viy last end be like 
His." — Num. 23: 10. 

The man whom eighty millions buried yesterday was a Chris- 
tian—a Christian gentleman. And our noblest impulse to-night 
will be to honor the town where his body lieth and to cause our 
lives to follow his martyr steps. 

O rare and honored Canton-tozvn ! 

Nought from his dust shall sever 
The Alecca of the zvorld's rcnozmi 
A nd of the zvorld's regard, forever ! 

THE M.ARTYR-SPIRIT. 

" The Son of God goes fortii to war, 

A kingly crown to gain ; 
His blood-red banner streams afar: 

Who follows in his train ? 

Who best can drink His cup of woe. 

Triumphant over pain, 
Who patient bears His cross below. 

He follows in His train. 

The martyr first, whose eagle eye 

C>ould pierce beyond the grave. 
Who saw his Master in the sky, 

And called on Him to save : 



Like Him, vvitii pardon on his tongue, 

In midst of mortal pain, 
He prayed for them tiiat did the wrong : 

y^ho follows in his train ? 

A glorious band, the ciiosen few. 

On whom the Spirit came, 
Twelve valiant saints, their hope they knew 

And mocked the cross and flame ; 

They climbed the steep ascent of heaven 

Through peril, toil and pain : 
God to us may grace be given 

To folloiv in their train." 



Ibvmn. 



Nearer, my God, to Thee, 

Nearer to Thee, 
E'en though it be a cross. 

That raiseth me ; 
Still all my song shall be, 
Nearer, my God, to Thee, 

Nearer to Thee. 

There let my way appear 
Steps unto heaven ; 

All that Thou sendest me 
in mercy given ; 

Angels to beckon me 

Nearer, my God, to Thee, 
Nearer to Thee. 



" Nearer, My God, to Ttiee." 

Though like a wanderer 

Weary and lone. 
Darkness comes over me. 

My rest a stone ; 
Yet in my dreams I'd be 
Nearer, my God, to Thee, 

Nearer to Thee. 

Then with my waking thoughts 
Bright with Thy praise, 

Out of my stony griefs 
Altars I'll raise ; 

So by my woes to be 

Nearer, my God, to Thee, 
Nearer to Thee. 



Or if on jo\tul wing, 

Cleaving the sky. 
Sun, moon, and stars forgot, 

Upward I fly. 
Still all my song shall be 
Nearer, my God, to Thee, 

Nearer to Thee. 



aDOrcss, 



Comrade JOHN A. KaMPING 



MCKlNLEY— THH SOLDIER AND COMRADE. 

I should ap<)loj,nze Un- the insufficiency of what I may be able 
to say on such an occasion as this, because of the short notice and 



because of the great merit of him whom we are assembled to honor 
and to mourn. 

A great poet has placed in the mouth of an historical character 
that "the evil that men do live after them ; the good is often in- 
terred with their bones." In the character whom we honor this eve- 
ning, there seems to exist no evil to survive him. for among the 
great men that adorn the pages of the history of this nation there 
is scarcely one to be found presenting so well-rounded a character, 
eminent in so many qualities, as that of our deceased Comrade. 
He earned for himself during the civil war by his personal merits 
an officer's rank as a soldier. It is by this official title that the 
dear companion of his life preferred to address him. In her ex- 
treme agony at parting she called to him not as President, nor as 
husband, but as " Major," a term which with her was the most en- 
dearing. His honorable life earned for him finally the position — 
the highest in the gift of the Nation — carrying wnth it that of the 
Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States. 
He possessed the noblest sentiments of the true soldier with whom 
duty comes ever first. He made war only for honorable purposes, 
the enfranchisement of the oppressed and the defense of the free ; 
for with him no warfare was justified except its purposes were 
noble and right. We honor him for having prosecuted one of the 
most successful wars carried on and concluded with results the 
most startling in their vast possibilities that is to be found in the 
history of nations. We no less esteem him for his broad principles 
of humanity and private virtues at its conclusion, showing in all 
his counsels and actions a good heart, a wise leader and kind 
friend. Those of the Comrades of the Grand Army who have had 
the great pleasure of taking this pure Comrade by the hand will 
never forget the earnest pressure of that hand, full of heart felt 
affection and Comradeship. The army is made more loyal and 
brave by such a soldier, and our Order is made better by such a 
Comrade. Truly his death, though cruel, was not in vain; and it 
is of such as his that another poet has writen : 

" Come to the bridal chamber Death ; 
Come to tile mother when she feels her first horn's breath; 
Come in Consumption's jjhastly form. 
The earthquake's shock, the ocean's storm, 
And tiiou art terrible. 
But to the hero whose bright sword, 
Has won the battle for the free, 
Thy voice sounds iil<e the Prophet's word, 
And in its hallowed tones are heard, 
The tlianks of millions yet to be." 

William McKinley we honor thee as a soldier ; we cherish 
thee as a Comrade. 

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?HY>mn, 

As one by one our rank are cleft We stood for ri^ht, when hostile might 

And comrades drop away ; Assailed our flag and land ; 

To those who wait are lessons left, God help us all for faith and right 

" Li\'e faithful while you may." And charity to stand. 

And when the last long roll shall sound, 

May every comrade be 
In God's angelic legions found. 

For all eternity. 

B&DrcsSt .... Comrade ALFRED C. BARNES 

MCKINLEY— THE PRESIDENT. 

When William McKinley had finished his term of service as a 
soldier, at the early age of 22, he found the world before him with 
the usual problem that confronts earnest young men, to choose a 
profession. Crowded into the preceding five years was experience 
enough for an ordinary life time. Now he was to begin over 
again, and walk in another and broader way. War's alarm gave 
place to the soothing pipes of peace, but the " strenuous life " still 
appealed to the ambitious youth. 

He elected the honorable strife of the courts. Not having had 
a liberal education, at least such as a university confers, he brought 
to the study of law only his native intelligence, the knowledge 
gained from observation of his fellow-men, and the acute percep- 
tions of a natural thinker. 

It is notable that few of our Presidents, and not even many 
of our leading men, have had a college training. What is it about 
the academic shades that unfits or at least disinclines a man for 
the worry and turmoil of public life? Perhaps it is because he 
has become accustomed to breathe an atmosphere too refined to 
tolerate coarse, every-day humanit}^ so that he does not care to 
jostle and fraternize with the common herd. Yet the true man is 
the commoner, and :he great man is the one whom the ccmimoncr 
selects as the best representative of himself and his class. 

As a lawyer Major McKinley at once made his mark, and 
young as he was he soon became the leader of the Stark County 
bar where he won a brilliant re])Utation, at least two of his cases 
being still quoted as models of thorough study and masterly argu- 
ment. These qualities, like twin planets, marked out the horos- 
cope of his subsequent career. At that early day he brcnight the 
same ]:)i)wers to bear upon political subjects, and in 1865 (the year 
of his discharge from the army), made his first campaign sj)eech, 
mounted on a dry goods bo.x for a rostrum. "Could he speak ?" 

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said a bystander. " Well I should say he could. Everybody was 
simply dumbfounded." 

For several years, unconsciously to himself perhaps, the young- 
lawver was in training for his great destiny. He accepted no local 
office — Providence held him back for higher things — until 1876, 
the gates opened into the wide arena of national politics, and the 
gladiator stepped forward armed and equipped at every point. At 
;^T^ years of age ^IcKinley was elected to Congress, where he took 
up the real work which was to ripen in the fullness of time into 
g-Jorious achievement and still more glorious martyrdom. 

President Hayes displayed an extraordinary interest in the 
young man. It was he who advised McKinley to become a special- 
ist. "Don't make a speech on every motion offered or bill intro- 
duced," he said, "but confine yourself to one particular thing and 
study it thoroughly so that you will be recognized as an absolute 
authority on the subject." Such is said to have been the inspira- 
tion of the tariff specialism which made the Congressman's name 
famous even while he was climbing the rounds of the ladder. 

His own definition of the measure with which he was thus 
identified is interesting. " What is a protective tariff ? It is a tax 
upon foreign imports so adjusted as to secure the necessary reve- 
nue, imposed upon those foreign products the like of which we are 
capable of producing at home." In other words foreign articles 
consumed by our own people were to carry the burden of our Gov- 
ernment, and our toilers were to be assured constant employment 
and high wages in the wholesome competition of home industry. 

The wideness of research necessary and the delicacy of deter- 
mining the rate of tariff to be placed on each article in order to 
ensure both of these results, thoroughly tested the resources of our 
budding statesman. In no respect did he disappoint just expecta- 
tion. The supreme moinent of his Congressional career was that 
in which he stood up to advocate and put upon its passage the 
McKinley Tariff Bill. His address was simple, devoid of oratori- 
cal ornament, but so thoroughly convincing by its calm logic and 
evidence of profound study, that it passed almost without amend- 
ment. Its author sat down in modest triumph, enveloped l)y the 
promise and potency of the future Presidency. 

At several Presidential conventions of his party, before that 
which culminated in his own preferment, McKinley was still un- 
consciously preparing for it. In 18S4 he supported Blaine ; in 
1888, Sherman, but on the latter occasion Connecticut, like a star 
in the east, cast one vote for McKinley. His friends think he 
w(ni1d have been nominated but for his own earnest protest, 
based upon loyalty to the instructions of his constituents. Bxit it 
was written! The tide was gathering strength, and in 1892, 

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thouoh ag-ain protesting-, McKinley received 182 votes for the 
nomination. 

^Meantime, through the eagerness of his own proud people to 
shower honors upon him, in 1891 he was elected Governor of Ohio, 
and ag-ain in 1893, renominated by acclamation, he carried the state 
by a phenomenal plurality. As Govenor he promoted the better- 
ment of public benevolent institutions, and the amelioration of 
local taxation, in which respect Ohio was, and I regret to say, still 
is, peculiarly afflicted. He also revealed much tenderness for the 
welfare of the working classes. Arbitration of labor disputes was 
perhaps the specialty of his Gubernatorial administration. The 
underlying philanthropy of all these interests is characteristic of 
the great altruistic soul of the man. 

In 1896 the tidal wave so long gathering, swept over the land 
carrying William INlcKinley upon its proud crest and depositing 
him in the Presidential chair. The paramount issue of the cam- 
paign was Sound Money. Who that saw it will ever forget the 
marching army in New York streets, shouting that slogan with 
the name of the man who represented the idea ; "Gold, McKin- 
ley ! McKinley, Gold ! Man of Gold — heart of Gold ! " Whenever 
tested this man always gave back the true ring of precious metal — 
not one suggestion of base alloy. 

And Providence having w'aited long for the man trained under 
its own eye, as we have seen crowded into his administration such 
imposing events as the formal establishment of Gold basis, the 
settlement with the Pacific roads, the Nicaraugua Canal treaty, the 
Annexation of Hawaii, and finally the Spanish War with the 
dramatic overture that led up to it, and the momentous conse- 
quences that followed. 

For the war itself, no one regarded the President as responsible. 
It was forced upon him by the outcry of an indignant and perhaps 
headstrong people. But he was always the faithful publicservant. 
The nation clamored for war and the nation's executive gave them 
the very best kind of a war possible — successful from the outset, 
conquering an honorable peace in an incredibly short time. 

Then came a period analagous to reconstruction times, though 
the later operation fortunately was external and not internal. 
Each step of the novel process called by its opponents "imperial- 
ism " had to be taken with the utmost caution, and yet without 
faltering. How nobly the President bore himself while walking 
delicately among these trying problems is well kncjwn to all. ICven 
the savage insurgents of the I'hilippines learned to feel that behind 
the frowning ranks of our army existed a great soul of benevolence, 
embodied in the person of the gentle, long sulTcring Chief. 

On the heels of the Spanish War, which introduced us to the 
Nations as a " World Power," came the Chinese war, requiring us 

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to exercise the prerog^ative and to defend the responsibility which 
i^oes with such distinction. Our troops in that far land as usual 
carried the stars and stripes to victory and then with characteristic 
moderation, retired from the field, omitting- to demand any of the 
substantial fruits of conquest — a spectacle viewed by the less 
disinterested allies with open-eyed wonder. Considered in con- 
nection with our generous attitude toward Cuba, it may well be 
claimed that the days of Chivalry have been revived and that this 
new and noble nation fights for no material advantage itself, but 
f(jr God and honor and the rights of man. And the plumed Knight 
in the forefront of battle, without fear and without reproach, while 
yet he was with us, was ever William McKinley, the typical 
American ! 

For the splendid part he bore during this tremendous epoch 
a grateful people triumphantly re-elected him in 1900 — an election 
fraught with doom, though none saw the shadow creeping on. At 
last he fell gloriously because he was our President, beloved and 
honored. Death loves a shining mark, and who shone so resplen- 
dent as he among all the earth's rulers? His greatness mingled 
with so much gentleness, could excite the envy of none save the 
hopelessly obscure and those who think eminence a crime. Would 
it have been more kind to have allowed him to return to private 
life ladened with the boundless honors of his first term ? No, a 
thousand times no ! To all minor rewards is now added the im- 
mortal crown of martyrdom and a place in history beside Wash- 
ington and Lincoln — the resplendent trio whom the world will 
always acknowlege the noblest patriots of the most patriotic nation 
on earth. 

"Ib^mn. ... . . A Hymn of the Homeland. 

The Homeland ! the Homeland ! The land of the freeborn ; 
There's no night in the Homeland, but aye the fadeless morn, 
I'm sighing for the Homeland, my heart is aciiing here; 
There's no pain in the Homeland, to which I'm drawing ne;ir. 

My Lord is in the Homeland, witli angels bright and fair; 

There's no sin in the Homeland, and no temptation there. 

The music of the Homeland is ringing in my ears, 

And when I think of the Homeland, my eyes gush out with tears. 

For those 1 love in tiie Homeland are calling me away. 
To the rest and peace of the Homeland, and the life beyond deca>-. 
For there's no death in the Homeland, there's no sorrow above ; 
Christ brings us all to the Homeland of His eternal love. 



IResponsive IReaMno. 



C/iaplaui . An the Lord put I inv trust : how say ve to my soul, Flee i/r a bird to your 
mountain? 

Post For, lo, the wicked bend f/ieir- bow, they make ready their arrow upon the 

string, that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart. 

Chaplain.. \i the foundation be destroyed, what can the righteous do? 

Post Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible 

tempest . this shall be the portion of their cup. 

Chaplain ..Vox the righteous LORD loveth righteousness : his countenance doth behold the 
upright. 

Post Unto thee will I cry, OLOHD my rock; be not silent to me : lest, //thou be silent 

to me, I become like them that go down into the pit. 

Chaplain . .Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my 
hands toward thy holy oracle. 

Post Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which 

speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts. 

Chaplain.. Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their 
endeavours : give them after the work of their hands ; render to them their 
desert. 

Post Because they regard not the works of the Lord, nor the operation of his 

hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up. 

Chaplain . .Teach me thy way, O Lord, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine 
enemies. 

Post Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies : for false witnesses are 

risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty. 

Chaplain ..I had fainted., unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land 
or the living. 

Post Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart : 

wait, I say, on the Lord. 



Solo Miss HELEN DOREMUS WESSELLS 

"SOMETIA\E WE'LL UNDERSTAND." 

Not now, but in the coming years. 

It may be in the better land. 
We'll read the meaning of our tears, 

And tliere, sometime, we'll understand. 

C/iortis: 

Then trust in God, thro' all thy days; 

Fear not, for He doth hold thy hand : 
Tho' dark thy way, still sing and praise ; 

Sometime, sometime, we'll understand. 

We'll know why clouds instead of sun 

Were over many a cherish'd plan ; 
Why song has ceased when scarce begun; 

'Tis there, sometime, we'll understand. 

God knows the way. He holds the key, 

He guides us with unerring hand ; 
Sometime with tearless eyes we'll see; 

Yes, there, up there, we'll understand. 

Cbe XorO's prater. 

Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name, Thy 
kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. Give 
lis this day our daily bread, and forg-ive us our tresspasses as we 
forgive those who tresspass against us. Lead us not into tempta- 
tion, but deliver us from evil, for Thine is the kingdom, and the 
power, and the glory, forever and ever. Amen. 

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